Michelle de Kretser wins Stella prize for book that ‘expands our notions of what a novel can be’

The two-time Miles Franklin winner adds the $60,000 prize for women and nonbinary writers to her accolades, for a novel that troubles the line between fiction and memoir

The Boys by Leo Robson review – a likable debut with aimless charm

The critic turned author’s witty, eccentric novel follows a Londoner reading Susan Sontag and looking for love

Awkward clapping, no-sand beaches and Alexander Skarsgård’s thigh-high boots: a trip to Cannes to see my film

Harry Lighton’s film Pillion is based on the novel Box Hill so, misgivings riding alongside, it felt right for the author to motorbike to the film festival for its premiere

Nightingale by Laura Elvery review – Florence Nightingale inspires a luminous historical novel

Elvery’s prose is both sensual and brutal in this richly imagined account of war, memory and the life of history’s most famous nurse

The Salt Path by Raynor Winn audiobook review – a life-changing journey

Facing homelessness and incurable illness, a couple sets out on a 630-mile hike in this lyrical memoir read by the author

The Book of Guilt by Catherine Chidgey review – this dystopia could have been extraordinary

Alternate political realities are compellingly explored in this sinister vision of a children’s home – but the echoes of Ishiguro are just too strong

‘Radical translation’ of Heart Lamp by Banu Mushtaq wins International Booker prize

Translator Deepa Bhasthi’s pick of 12 of Mushtaq’s ‘life-affirming’ tales about women’s lives in southern India becomes the first short story collection to win the £50,000 award

Albion by Anna Hope review – Succession-style infighting

The funeral of an English aristocrat sets the scene for a battle over inheritance, in an ambitious tale of empire and historical privilege

Margaret Atwood’s 10 best books – ranked!

Ahead of the author’s much anticipated memoir, we count down the best of her books – from climate dystopias to her world-conquering handmaids

The Book of Records by Madeleine Thien review – a dazzling fable of migration

The adventures of great voyagers echo across centuries as a father and daughter flee from flooding in near-future China

‘I dropped a C-bomb into Tolstoy’: one man’s quest to translate War and Peace into ‘bogan Australian’

Melbourne man Ander Louis has translated hundreds of pages of the 19th century classic line by line to include Ford Falcons, wankers and drongos

A Danish Groundhog Day or tales of millennial angst… What should win this year’s International Booker?

A headspinning novel from Japan alongside a high concept tale from Denmark, and a French account of migrant tragedy … our critic weighs up the contenders

The Guardian view on the Moomins at 80: in search of a home

Editorial: Tove Jansson’s magical stories provide a message of tolerance, inclusivity and hope for today’s refugee crisis

The best recent crime and thrillers – review roundup

Never Flinch by Stephen King; The Sunshine Man by Emma Stonex; Heartwood by Amity Gaige; The Mourning Necklace by Kate Foster; The Search for Othella Savage by Foday Mannah

Palestinian author Yasmin Zaher wins Dylan Thomas prize with ‘audacious’ novel The Coin

£20,000 award for writers aged 39 or under goes to story ‘tackling trauma and grief with bold and poetic moments of quirkiness and humour’